A Pernicious Sort of Woman: Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages

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Author Biography

Elizabeth Makowski is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiii

Abbreviations

Introduction

xvii

Part I. Academic Commentary: Lawyers Interpret the Law

Attendentes and Secular Canonesses

(20)

Cum de quibusdam, Ratio recta, and Beguines

(28)

Cum ex eo, Sancta Romana, and Tertiaries

(20)

Part II. Consilia and Decisiones: Practical Application of Legal Theory

Panormitanus and the Inhumati, a Consilium

(18)

Tertiaries, Canonesses, Beguines, and Case Law

(25)

The Cologne Defense of the Sisters of the Common Life

114

(25)

Part III. Assessment and Reassessment

Medieval Lawyers and Modern Scholars

139

(10)

List of Manuscripts Cited

149

(2)

Bibliography

151

(10)

Index

161